The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach, po 20 jan 2025, Od (2025/2025), Režírované Lotte de Beer, Dirigent Pierre Dumoussaud, Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg, France

Absolute master of operetta under the Second Empire, Offenbach devoted the last months of his life to the composition of the most ambitious work of his career: an opera as moving as it is entertaining, in which laughter takes nothing away from the tragedy. nor to beauty. He composed this musical tour de force on an equally masterful libretto, bringing together no less than three stories in the same story, with the protagonist the writer (and musician) ETA Hoffmann, who became the hero of his own fantastic tales which have had such an impact the romantic imagination. With the help of chef Pierre Dumoussaud, Lotte de Beer revisits this great classic and offers a dizzying dive into the psyche and fantasies of an artist struggling with his inner demons.